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Sat, 11 Mar 2006

greylisting and gmail

I have greylistd installed (on Debian with exim) and noticed last monday (March 6th) that Google has something like 26 outgoing SMTP servers for gmail. That doesn't work well with greylistd, though. So I added "64.233" to the whitehosts list. Not sure if that's the right thing to do or not, though. I'm not wildly excited about adding items to the whitehosts list.

Comments:

Posted by David Wilson on Sun Mar 12 12:07:55 2006
This was discussed on IRC last night, and someone suggesting using the SPF records for certain big sites (eg. hotmail.com, gmail.com) to automatically whitelist mail coming from them. This is easily accomplished at least with Exim. Hope that helps.


Posted by will on Sun Mar 12 12:21:45 2006
I'll look into this later today, but at first blush it looks like it will help a lot especially given that I have similar problems with Yahoo.

Thank you!


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